USDT0 as a Gas Token Now?

1 Day Ago

Infra

What Does Vitalik's Shifting Perspective on Layer 2 Mean?

Vitalik made waves with an uncharacteristic tweet, arguing that Ethereum Layer 2 chains should no longer be treated as part of the Ethereum brand and that each L2 should strive to create its own independent value.

Infra

Is Ethena the real culprit behind the 10/10 crash?

Is Ethena the real cause of the 10/10 crash?

Market

DeFi

Ethena

Jeff’s Full PM Circle

Jeff tried to build a prediction market seven years ago when crypto lacked the infrastructure, had a few million users, and no one could tell him if it was legal. Now he's coming back with the largest perps DEX in crypto, a custom L1, a top-10 token at $10B market cap, and the composability to compete.

DeFi

Hyperliquid

OpenClaw: Is the Crypto x AI Boom Actually Happening This Time?

How are crypto projects responding to the OpenClaw boom?

General

EigenCloud

Virtuals

Monad

Ponyo

6 Days Ago

Where TF is Crypto Heading?

BTC is down 15% YoY while the S&P gained 16% and gold, silver hit ATH. We analyze the structural impact of the 10/10 liquidation event, the bits-to-atoms rotation thesis, and the growing disconnect between fundamentals and price.

Market

7 Days Ago

Tokenized Securities Cheat Sheet By SEC

This SEC statement is highly significant because it clearly presents a framework for classifying tokenized securities and explains SEC’s position on each model.

Market

Jay

7 Days Ago

Infra DeFi

SSV Staking — A Step Toward Ethereum’s Extended Infra

With the mainnet integration of staking approaching in March, SSV appears poised to evolve beyond a standalone security middleware into a true extension of Ethereum’s infrastructure, underpinned by a sustainable revenue and cost structure.

Infra

DeFi

Steve

7 Days Ago

Infra

Will GTE adopt Commonware?

Commonware is gaining attention as a next-generation blockchain infrastructure. While it offers significant technical differentiation, the linkage between its adoption and value capture for the development entity remains unclear.

Infra

HSI Has Purchased 3M HYPE Since December

On-chain analyst mlmtracked HSI’s (formerly Sonnet BioTherapeutics) wallet activity and published findings on their recent HYPE accumulation:

Market

Hyperliquid

Jay

14 Days Ago

From Fragmented Assemblies to SuperLayers

As protocols evolve into platforms, the key requirement is not about adding more features, but about clearly delineating roles and responsibilities—namely, how to efficiently optimize the full operational stack required of a platform, including infrastructure resources, developer onboarding tooling, distribution, etc.

General

Heechang

14 Days Ago

Stablecoin

Korea's Stablecoin Chain Is Coming, and Asia Needs This.

Hashed Open Finance, a subsidiary of Hashed, has announced Maroo, a KRW-stablecoin-focused Layer 1 blockchain.

Stablecoin

15 Days Ago

The Integration of Foundations and Labs Is Not Simply Merging Two Organizations

Celo just announced the integration of their foundation and labs. Why have foundations and Labs been separated until now, and what does the recent wave of integration signify?

General

Steve

15 Days Ago

Infra

Can Commonware Become the Next-Generation Blockchain Infrastructure?

The Emergence of a New Blockchain Infrastructure? From Tempo to Noble, Let’s Take a Closer Look at Commonware—the Next-Generation Blockchain Stack.

Infra

Eren

16 Days Ago

Stock Tokenization: Onchain is No Longer a Mirroring Market

Today, the NYSE announced its plan to launch a tokenization platform. A 24/7 stock market with extreme capital efficiency may be closer than it seems.

General

17 Days Ago

General Stablecoin Market

Securitize

Brian Armstrong is Wrong. 4 Ways to Tokenize Stocks

The Crypto Market Structure Bill instead provides regulatory clarity for tokenized equities.

General

Stablecoin

Market

Securitize

Garbage Time? No, Yield Time.

In NBA, Garbage time is money time: the gap between an outcome being effectively decided and final settlement is a tradable window. In prediction markets, that can look less like betting and more like buying a near certain $1 at a tiny discount.

Market

Polymarket

21 Days Ago

Google Bans Foreign Exchange Apps from Korean Users

Starting January 28th, major global CEX apps will no longer be supported on Google Play Store. Community confusion is mounting over this preemptive measure that even regulatory authorities were unaware of. c4lvin examines the changes this incident will bring to the Korean crypto community and what it signifies.

Market

Eren

21 Days Ago

Stablecoin

Stablecoin Treasury Management Is Underrated

Visa Direct announced the integration of stablecoins for payouts. This matters because it sets the minimum condition for stablecoins to be used in corporate treasury management.

Stablecoin

Heechang

21 Days Ago

Today, The Korean RWA Bill Passed. What Comes Next?

Today, Korea's National Assembly passed amendments to the Capital Markets Act and the Electronic Securities Act (commonly referred to as the STO bill).

General

Steve

22 Days Ago

Collector Crypt:Distorted Growth Drivers and the Absence of the Real Card Market

Collector Crypt’s recent growth has been remarkable, but its limitations are becoming increasingly clear. Steve takes a closer look at the underlying reasons.

General

Ponyo

22 Days Ago

Hyperion's Shareholder Letter: From Treasury to Operator

Hyperion DeFi put out its first shareholder letter under new CEO Hyunsu Jung on January 12. The company is explicitly positioning itself as an on-chain operating business built around its treasury.

General

What's Behind Polygon's Surging Metrics?

Polygon's on-chain indicators have been showing a sharp upward trend recently. @c4lvin looked into the data to find out why.

DeFi

Polygon

Jun

23 Days Ago

Where you at, x402?

From token issuance to an autonomous agent economy. As the qualitative shift in txs and Competition between Base and Solana take center stage, the heart of x402's vision for 2026 is 'A2A payments'.

General

Jay

23 Days Ago

Governance Frameworks Will Matter Even More

At a time when a diverse set of participants—including institutions—are strategically adopting various crypto assets, the importance of how governance frameworks are structurally designed will only continue to grow.

General

25 Days Ago

General DeFi

Why Trump’s 10% Interest Cap Misses the Point

Credit card rates should be set by the market, and on-chain lending can make that work.

General

DeFi

Stablecoin Market General

27 Days Ago

Never ending debate over stablecoin rewards (feat. Market Structure Bill)

The debate over stablecoin interest payments surrounding the Market Structure Bill

Stablecoin

Market

General

Optimism's Buyback Isn't a Magic Wand

OP's buybacks is a meaningful step forward, but it won’t matter much. At current revenue levels, the mechanism is more symbolic than substantive.

General

Optimism

AAVE Horizon Borrow Reached $200M, and Would RWA Lending Boom?

As the universe of tokenized assets expands beyond treasuries, into tokenized equities, non-USD stablecoins, and other financial instruments, lending is likely to become the primary mechanism through which traditional capital migrates onchain.

DeFi

AAVE

Eren

28 Days Ago

Tokenization vs. Perpification is Wrong

Venezuela’s stock market is up over 200% since Maduro’s capture, yet no one knows how to buy Venezuelan equities. What does this say about the equity tokenization vs equity perps?

Market

The $400k Bet: Unmasking the 'Maduro Insider' on Polymarket

When 'Efficient Markets' price in state secrets: A suspicious wallet printed 1,200% gains on Maduro's capture. Is this the dark side of Prediction Market?

Market

General

Polymarket

29 Days Ago

How Will the Spread of Vibe Coding Impact the Crypto Ecosystem?

Vibe coding is taking over the timeline. But what does this mean for crypto community?

General

General Market Stablecoin

1 Month Ago

Mirae Asset, One of Korea’s Largest Financial Firms, Seeks to Acquire a CEX

Why does Mirae Asset want to acquire Korbit?

General

Market

Stablecoin

Brevis’s TODA: Perfect Auction Mechanism for ZK Proving Market

Brevis has introduced the TODA (Truthful Online Double Auction) method, designed so that participants benefit the most when they bid according to their true value, in order to solve the inefficient signaling games occurring in the ZK proof market.

Infra

Brevis

2 Months Ago

Stablecoin Consumer

Why KlarnaUSD Is a Real Game Changer

Onchain BNPL is packed with huge potential.

Stablecoin

Consumer

Sealaunch Intelligence

3 Months Ago

DeFi Market

Aave’s Aggressive Move to Challenge TradFi

Aave’s November 2025 launch of the Aave App expanded access and positioned it as a direct competitor to low-risk assets like T-bills, MMFs, and bank deposits.

DeFi

Market

ORE Protocol’s Next Big Move in the Solana Ecosystem

The Solana-based ORE Protocol has introduced a new system that combines a probabilistic mining mechanism with a Refining Fee to address inefficiencies in traditional PoW.

Infra

Solana

Virtuals Protocol's ACP Back in the Spotlight with x402

Whether ACP can establish itself as a commercial-grade agent commerce solution amid this accelerating growth will be one of the most notable developments to watch in the evolving AI agent economy.

Infra

Virtuals

The Synergy Between Exchanges and LayerZero Begins with DVN

Joining LayerZero’s open and neutral DVN infrastructure is not just a technical move - it is a strategic step for exchanges to secure sovereignty in the multichain era. Nodit’s participation in the DVN network may well be the first step toward that future.

Infra

LayerZero

How much is Securitize being valued at in the public market?

Securitize has announced that it will go public through a merger with the SPAC trading under the ticker CEPT. CEPT is currently trading around ~$12 per share, so what valuation does that imply for Securitize after the merger? Let’s take a quick look at this based on the IR materials.

General

Securitize

Reflecting on Securitize and Tokenization

Five years ago, the stablecoin market was worth just $20 billion. Today, it exceeds $295 billion. The tokenization market has followed a similar trajectory, rising from $130 million to $34.7 billion over the same period.

Market

Securitize

4 Months Ago

ALT DAT Still Lags Behind BTC and ETH in Attention

Outside BTC and ETH, tokens still struggle to gain traction in the listed markets.

Market

Unstoppable Growth of LayerZero

LayerZero’s cumulative transfer volume has surpassed $160 billion, with Q3 2025 alone exceeding $50 billion, more than the entire previous half-year. What is driving this explosive expansion?

Infra

Market

LayerZero

Ventuals Hits 1.45M vHYPE in Under 24 Hours

Ventuals’ vHYPE staking campaign launched on Oct 16 at 15:00 UTC, marking one of the fastest HIP-3 bootstraps to date.

DeFi

Market

Hyperliquid

Ventuals

The Last Mile That Gets Us to the Destination

The missing piece, aka the last mile, is Real-Time infrastructure: a blockchain so fast, cheap, and seamless that the interactions themselves become the products.

Infra

MegaETH

“Institutions will only adopt tokenized assets under existing regulations”

According to a January 2025 institutional survey conducted jointly by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon, regulatory uncertainty (52%) emerged as the primary concern for institutional investors in digital asset investment.

Market

Securitize

Who Owns the Future of Prediction Markets

The prediction market sector has undergone significant changes over the past year. Interest exploded during the U.S. presidential election in November 2024, propelling this space into one of the most talked-about new sectors within crypto.

Market

Polymarket

Welcome to the New Phase of Mantle

Mantle started as a DAO as BitDAO, and built out its chain with Mantle L2. Now it's having MNT integrated with Bybit and also making its ecosystem flourish with new initiatives.

Market

Mantle

Introducing SUIG, the first and biggest SUI DATco

Let’s take a quick look at what SUIG is all about.

Market

General

SUIG

Sui

Heechang

5 Months Ago

Tokenized Stocks Launched, and Three Observations

xStocks provides a tokenized stocks that enables investors to trade tokenized versions of popular U.S. equities like Tesla in real time. Though still in its early stages, several interesting observations have been shown.

Market

5 Months Ago